Letters: North County, March 23, 2013

Obama a divisive fear-mongerer

President Obama plays the fear card often, including on Feb. 19

(http://tinyurl.com/ayaqeyt): “Now, if Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness; it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research. ... Emergency responders (and) their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Border Patrol agents will see their hours reduced. ... (There will be) delays at airports across the country. Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. Tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care. ... The burden is all on ... seniors or middle-class families. So these cuts are not smart. ... They will hurt our economy.”

Who knew?

Obama was offered the ability to make discretionary cuts; turning it down. However, if the government can operate all of these programs with only $85 billion — yes, I am impressed. We certainly don’t need the $2.3 trillion budget. Hurrah! Country saved.

No, Obama is a petulant, divisive, fear-mongerer.

Nick Dietrich

Rancho Santa Fe

Believes in whole Constitution, Bill of Rights

Bruce Thompson (“The Second Amendment isn’t scripture,” Feb. 21) needs to understand that the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights are our “scripture of freedom.”

He gives that tired old argument about the Second Amendment being only about the militia when, in reality, it’s about giving “the people” a means to protect themselves from government tyranny and being able to protect themselves.

Our experiences in Vietnam and Afghanistan destroy his comment, “Who seriously thinks a bunch of gun nuts are a match for ... U.S. military?” (“The Second Amendment is obsolete,” Feb. 2). What have these countries done to the “greatest military power on earth”?

Thompson’s son is fighting for his father’s freedom with a gun he “appreciates” and he doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment? Give me a break. Would his son deny his father the right to defend himself with a gun? I think not.

I believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights completely, not just the parts I like.

If Mr. Thompson feels so strongly about the need to get rid of the Second Amendment, he has the “right” to start a movement to do just that.

Gerald “Tink” Reaster

Escondido

Hollywood is hurting America

Hollywood taking dramatic or artistic license in fact-based or true stories, such as the Academy Award-nominated movies “Argo,” Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” is one thing. However, it cannot be stretched to a facsimile or copy of the truth when the theme of the plot is altered or tainted by ideology. Indeed, it simply doesn’t read the same when it promotes a liberal agenda.

Worse, American history revisionists such as Howard Zinn’s book, “A People’s History of the United States” — widely used in our education system of corrupted indoctrination — and currently, Oliver Stone’s book and film, “The Untold History of the United States,” serve as nothing more than the author’s and artist’s efforts to undermine the historical meaning of our noble culture.

Alas, Hollywood’s, and liberal politicians’, deceit in promoting socialism over capitalism, democracy and freedom is bad enough. But when children’s stories such as “Snow White,” “The Wizard of Oz” and “Jack and the Beanstalk” are warped by Hollywood into violent-action movie extremes, that is simply unconscionable.

Daniel Jeffs

Carlsbad

The little people have been robbed

It is my contention that we, the little people, are missing the point when it comes to the state of the union of the United States.

It is not our fault that we miss the point, because the point is never made clear by the point-makers. They purposely don’t make the point (i.e., subject) clear, nor do they intend to, because if they did, we would become proactive, militant and even riot against them.

For instance, since the re-election of President Obama, we don’t hear much about the $17 trillion of debt we are in, which is getting worse every day. Instead, we are led, by unverifiable statistics, to believe things are getting better.

Instead of the cold, hard facts, we are tossed marshmallows in hopes we will be dazed and confused and remain hopeful. Hardly anyone answers a question, but spins it to another subject and leaves us doubting our sanity. I surmise that the “sink holes” nature provides are a reminder to us that we are not on firm ground and that our nation has been undermined and is collapsing.

We’ve been robbed and the robbers are telling us it is a victimless crime.